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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:08 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:30 +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > Absolutely, this is something we can and should fix in Maverick. We
> > plan
> > to be selling one or two bits of commercial software in 10.10, and for
> > well-known legal reasons, DVD playback is likely to be one of those. 
> 
> Is it not possible to sell DVD playback functionality which is open
> source?
> 

Well I presume that we would have to do a deal with the patent holders
directly to sell licences for it. 

> The powerdvd functionality didn't compare well to libdvdcss, even if the
> commercial app does tick the right boxes for the the DVD Forum and
> DMCA's legal requirements. Thought I believe having a FOSS solution is
> criminalised because of the DVD Forum refusing the license a key
> component in a compatible way.
> 
> Comical Note: who would have ever thought it was a worse criminal
> offense to play a legally bought DVD on your legally bought computer
> than playing an illegally bought one, such is the humor of Congress and
> the DMCA.
> 
> Martin IANAL.
> 
> 
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